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Dive into the exciting possibilities of CAD design with SharkCAD® Pro. Built with engineering and design professionals in mind, SharkCAD Pro gives you maximum power and flexibility with 2D drafting tools, 3D solid and mesh modeling, photorealistic rendering, and everything you need to create precision designs. Take a bite out of your competition with SharkCAD Pro.

Whether you are building model airplanes or real ones, SharkCAD Pro gives you a full stack of CAD design tools to go from concept to completion. Draft, diagram, and document your ideas in 2D view. Model, render, and print in 3D. SharkCAD Pro revolutionizes CAD design for printing, rendering, animation, and precision design. From small scale prototyping to large scale manufacturing, SharkCAD Pro can get it done.

SharkCAD: Bigger, better, faster 2D/3D CAD software

Don’t waste another minute on entry-level software you’ve outgrown. SharkCAD can give you professional quality CAD design tools that won’t cost you an arm and a leg. Enjoy the flexibility of mesh-based modeling coupled with subdivision technology that will make creating conceptual drawings a breeze. SharkCAD also has 2D switching, so you can swim back and forth between 2D and 3D views as needed.

SharkCAD can help you design projects such as:

Architectural drawings

Remodeling plans

Inventions and patent designs

Prototyping with 3D printers

Mechanical drawings

Furniture design, woodworking, and cabinetry

Jewelry making

Musical instruments

Graphics and technical illustrations

Product and Packaging design

2D drafting, diagraming and schematic drawings

Custom manufacturing from CAD to CNC

Compatibility and file sharing

SharkCAD software plays nice with others. SharkCAD is compatible with AutoCAD® and over a dozen popular CAD and Graphics formats, so you will be able to easily collaborate with other professionals.

SharkCAD provides compatibility with AutoCAD® DWG files

DXF/DWG versions from R12 to 2019

STL Import/Export for 3D printing

SVG Import and Export

3MF Import & Export

VMRL 2.0 Texture Support

OBJ Texture Support

Adobe Illustrator® Import

PDF Import

SketchUp 2019 Import/Export

Collada™ (DAE) Import/Export

We will help you learn

While SharkCAD is feature rich, we work hard at making it easy by including intuitive tools like our LogiCursor™ that makes CAD a snap by suggesting your next move as you draw.

Your purchase also includes access to our training tutorials, so you will not have to learn through trial and error. We are experts at creating CAD software and our tutorials will help you to become an expert user quickly.

Simple and flexible pricing

We offer SharkCAD in two different pricing models to best suit your needs.

Permanent License - Download once and own it forever. Ideally suited for users who need a single license or users who feel they may not need to upgrade each year.

Annual Subscriptions - This is ideal for multiple user seats. With an active subscription, you will always be receiving the latest enhancements and new functionality.

3D Printing Tools

SharkCAD includes 3D printing tools to prepare and validate your designs to make them 3D printer ready.

3D Print Check

Checks for print viability, displaying warnings or errors to the user.

Surface Normals Check

Facet normals define the inside and outside areas of a part. If facet normals are pointing the wrong way, the 3D printer may have problems creating the part. This will check for problems and we have several commands that can help you fix it.

Overhang Analysis

This will help you visually inspect modeling areas that may require structural support for 3D printing. Meshes, surfaces, and solids facets normals are compared to the work plane direction. Angles that are less or equal to 45 degrees are highlighted as red.

Wall Thickness Analysis

This tool provides a means to visually inspect modeling areas that may be too thin for 3D printing. Meshes, surfaces, and solids facets are examined using ray intersections.

Preview Slices

This interface will help you to slice models given a direction and thickness. The dialog box allows for animation through the slices and single-stepping. Use to verify that a part has closed, non-overlapping sections, a requirement for 3D printing.

Auto Position

The Auto Position tool translates the model to the positive x, y coordinate system at z=0.

Support Structure

Manually adds geometry to support material as it is created by the 3D printer. Support structures controls, include Attach Radius, Midpoint Radius, Base Radius, Base Thickness, and Drag base and midpoints to modify structure location.

Show Printer Volume

Toggles the boundary of the default 3D Printer. The volume is defined within the Printer Definitions dialog box.

Printer Definitions

Sets key parameters of the 3D printer, including length, width, and height of the volume accessible by the printer. The parameters in the Printer Definitions dialog box are used for commands such as 3D Print Check and Auto Position.

SharkCAD Pro version 12 is here!

You are going to love the new features we have included in our latest release.

PowerPack Now Included!

SharkCAD v12 is packed to the gills with new features. We took our popular PowerPack add-on and baked it into our version 12 release at no additional cost to you. That adds a collection of over 70 new tools including 3D printing repair tools, new modeling tools and general utilities that will increase productivity and make your existing and future designs 3D Printer ready.

Read about some of our most exciting new features below.

3D Design Advancements

Split Mesh

This tool will divide a mesh into two portions based on a cutting plane. Split Mesh is an ideal tool for those working with facetted data along with 3D printing manufacturing processes.

Mesh Booleans

This advancement provides a means to add or remove material from a mesh body. Previous versions only allowed Boolean operations on ACIS based solids. Now with the introduction of mesh Booleans, you can add/remove material imported from STL, OBJ, 3DS, and SketchUp.

HeightMap to 3D Mesh

This will help you convert a 2D image into a 3D object. The height is extracted from the color components by applying a grayscale conversion and mapping the results into a user supplied height value.

Mesh to Analytic to convert mesh data into precise solids

This tool converts manifold, water tight, and facetted models into solid models with options to simplify into analytical shapes. Suitable for converting low polygon models (<100K) into solids for modeling operations as well sharing to other apps using STEP and IGES translators.

Curve, Surface, and Solid Modeling Tools

You will have greater control when editing with new tools such as: repair profile, simplify profile, show surface free edges, remove duplicate entities, remove zero length curves, and simplify solid.

Wrap

Our new Wrap tool will help you place text, company logos, or complex 2D patterns onto 3D surfaces. The results are perfect for imprinting, embossing, or engraving.

PhotoRender SpotLight

This new visualization tool creates a soft shadow directly under a group of objects. This is an alternate to the default PhotoRendering method that uses a distant light offset.

Weight and Volume Tables

Whether you’re designing an aircraft, automobile, or picnic table, weight is key control parameter in a design. Tracking the weight of materials is a key control parameter in design. V12 introduces a new Bill of Material (BOM) attribute specific for creating a summed weight table.

Spur Gear Generator

Creates a Spur Gear based on number of teeth, module, pressure angle, clearance, and involute samples. In addition to creating the 2D curve outline of the gear, an extruded 3D solid model is added to the drawing.

Unroll

Unroll will flatten a developable surface such as a ruled surface into a shape that lies in the XY plane.

Drafting and Annotation Updates

Best Fit Line and Best Fit Circle

Great for tracing precise curves over rough sketches. This tool will “best fit” a line or circle from a sample collection of points.

Angular Tolerance Updates

The Angular Tolerance interface has been updated to dynamically provide input from the Inspector dialog box.

Usability Improvements

Save Layers with View

Now you have the ability to save layers associated with view orientations.

AutoLayer

AutoLayer is a tool that will automatically assign an entity to a layer based on the same shape or by entity name. Use AutoLayer to help organize files imported from other applications that do not support layering.

Preview Layers

The Preview Layers utility provides a user interface to rapidly step through layers. The play button will animate through the layer start and end region. The step forward and backward buttons manually provide control through the layers.

Isolate Layer

The Isolate Layer command sets the display layers to objects you select.

Change File Units

There are many file formats that do not contain unit settings that include STL, OBJ, PLY, 3DS and older DXF files. The Change File Units command allows you to quickly change a file scale based on Units or Scale Factor.

Show Only By Name

The Show Only by Name tool displays just the entity with the provided name. This tool changes the Show/Hide flags of the entity.

Rename

The Rename tool provides a way to rename large number of entities. This tool is especially useful for renaming entities imported from external applications. For example, Inventor attaches the full assembly representation to the part name.

At Punch!CAD, it is our mission to make computer aided design software that matches up perfectly with your needs, regardless of your industry or expertise. Whether you’re an architect, engineer, CAD drafter, 3D printing expert, furniture designer, student, or DIY hobbyist, you can always find the right tools for the job.